Will & Grace star Eric
McCormack insists the television sitcom included lots of gay sex.
McCormack, who played openly gay lawyer
Will Truman for 8 seasons on the NBC comedy, rejected criticism of
the show that it had too little gay sex.
Speaking
to Rex Wockner, McCormack said: “Will had as much sex on camera
as anybody on Friends had on camera. Nobody has sex on
camera.”
The forty-seven-year-old actor insisted
that Will had lots of dates.
“Will was dating Patrick Dempsey and
he married Taye Diggs,” he said.
McCormack, however, conceded that his
character lacked a love life during the show's early years, saying
the criticism came from “people that had stopped watching the show
about three years earlier.”
“I think the show actually ended up
being – as much as it got very outrageous near the end – it also
got more outspoken,” he said.
McCormack was honored for his gay
advocacy by Equality California, the state's largest gay rights
advocate, in May.
He said he received the group's
Equality Award for speaking out “as a straight man on behalf of the
[gay] community.”
“My kid, in his class he's got kids
with two moms and kids with two dads; it's going to be different when
he's in his 20s but right now it's still a fight to be had and I've
done what little I could,” he said.
Source: Rex
Wockner